No evidence for impaired multisensory integration of low-level audiovisual stimuli in adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3004-3013

  De Boer Schellekens, Liselotte ^a   Keetels, Mirjam ^a   Eussen, Mart ^b   Vroomen, Jean ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Yulius Academie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Multisensory integration; Temporal ventriloquism; Visual orienting; Visual search; Visual temporal order

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ARIPIPRAZOLE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONIDINE; ESCITALOPRAM; PANTOPRAZOLE; PAROXETINE; PIPAMPERONE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL STIMULUS; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMPAIRED MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATENT PERIOD; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; TEMPORAL VENTRILOQUISM; VISUAL ORIENTING; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL TEMPORAL ORDER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887904176     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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